Newsom v. Pryor's Lessee

This is a writ of error to a judgment given in the Circuit Court for the District of West Tennessee, in an ejectment brought by the defendants in error against the present plaintiff. The plaintiffs in the Court below claimed under the elder patent, to the validity of which there was no objection. Of consequence, the only question in the cause was, whether the lines of their grant comprehended the land in contest. The grant was made for 5,000 acres of land, “ lying or both sides of the two main forks of Duck river, be .inning, &c. and running thence west 894 poles, to a white oak tree ;…